About Chelsea
Chelsea Sudderth is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, stress, and ADHD. Chelsea also helps people facing trauma, mood disorders, eating concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and career questions.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses client-centered methods to listen and shape care around each person's goals. She blends practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful, and draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live in line with their values.
Background and approach
Chelsea has worked with people coping with complex trauma and with mood instability such as bipolar disorder. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, codependency, abandonment wounds, attachment issues, and communication challenges. She pays attention to co-occurring conditions and the ways symptoms overlap.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and action-oriented. Chelsea will talk through real-life strategies, coping tools, and small experiments to try between visits. She treats the work as a partnership and focuses on what will help a person feel steadier and more capable in daily life.
She offers sessions in English and practices from Michigan. Chelsea understands how hard it can be to reach out, and she approaches the work with calm, respect, and steady support.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck trying to control every thought. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life-change decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills and can be helpful when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Chelsea will collaborate with each person to decide which methods make the most sense based on goals and daily life. She adapts exercises and check-ins so that the approach fits what a person hopes to change and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, short coaching-style support, or quick skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity when life gets disrupted.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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